As head of the research department Organisation and Management in Healthcare, I supervise several teams of researchers active in Nivel research programs within this area. As program leader Healthcare System and Governance, together with my own team we conduct research on the quality and sustainablity of our healthcare system. In particular, we focus on the effects of regulated market forces, the choices health insurers make when purchasing care, and the effects of these choices on the quality and accessibility of care. In doing so, we make use of the Health Care Consumer Panel and the Barometers deployed in this panel, among others.

Intended and unintended effects
Is the system working as intended? This is an important and also exciting question for me. Combining scientific research and making the translation to practice is something I find challenging.

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In addition to being a program coordinator at Nivel, I am an endowed professor at the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML) of Maastricht University. With this chair I contribute to the knowledge of health care policy, especially how policy affects practice and whether it leads to better quality or cost-effectiveness.